Even a ceiling fan can't cool this husband-wife battle

It's time for an end-of-the-week wrap-up on the husband-wife disputes thing. Entering today's games, the score is six wins for women, four for men.

Let's get this over with.

My wife and I are in a disagreement about the term "PDQ." She says it means "pretty damn or darn quick." I say different. What does it mean?

Exactly what different meaning do you think it has? Doesn't matter. It's now 7-4 women.

During the summer months, my wife insists on leaving the ceiling fan on in our bedroom even after we leave the room. I say the breeze from the fan will make you feel cooler but not cool the room. She says I am little crazy.

You may well be crazy. I can't speak to that matter. However, you are right about this one. The fan doesn't cool the air. It cools you by passing air over your skin to enhance cooling evaporation.

If you're not there to be cooled, the fan is just burning up electricity and possibly even in a small way adding heat to the room.

7-5.

My wife cracks her knuckles even as I caution her against it. She claims there is no danger. I say otherwise. It is harmful long term?

A lot of people think that cracking your knuckles leads to arthritis. It doesn't.

In some rare cases, according to the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, excessive knuckle-cracking can sometimes lead to soft-tissue damage in your knuckles, but it is more likely to increase mobility in those joints. It has something to do with something called Golgi tendon organs.

Don't ask me what Golgi tendons are. I don't know. We apparently have them scattered around among many of our joints.